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LOVE COP – ‘EAT YR HEART OUT’
Gnarnia VIPs and dark pop geniuses, Love Cop, return with a flat out essential cassette. Taking everything magical from their first cassette and amplifying it’s appeal by 1000%, this is a true masterpiece. Recalling the best moments of Television Personalities, The Clean, and Factory Records bands like Joy Division and New Order, perfect pop goodness awaits. Fuzzy guitars, jangly guitars, crunchy guitars, dance beats, rock beats, witchy vibes, stoner vibes, it’s all here.These songs were written to stay in your head. No bullshit, just devilish, delightful, delicious pop magic. Pop magic is real. Want proof? Listen to this cassette. The album also features Rikky Gage aka Free Weed, lead crooner in The Memories & White Fang, in a guest spot on the dark party groove “Witch of Webs”!

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Jaqkquil/Ectoplasm split C40 $6
Jaqkquil is Detroit’s Ice Cold Chrissy breaking away from the moniker Coyote Clean Up for a dosage of fun-loving sounds. For fans of Coyote Clean Up, this new project appears more relaxed and enjoyable. On the b-side is Toronto’s Ectoplasm, the baked out producer with tripped out sounds and beats. Jaqkquil and Ectoplasm create a dichotomy of dark and light, an album of despair cuddles close to its playfulness. A chilling cold sound of Ectoplasm that creeps inside of you and like a disease, it pulls and drains. The electronic drones and desolate tones are bittersweet as they build upon one another and grow into a deranged retribution. The damaged dream hop of Jaqkquil presents a care-free alternative, a dance of accidental electronica that conjures up reveries of nostalgia, stylistic movement, and dreamscapes that are free-flowing and charming. Catch the Great Lakes Breeze.

TEAADORA – ‘Virgin Forever’ C40 $6
Virgin Forever is a journey of minimalistic folk sounds of TEAADORA. The intimacy of this release is so pronounced, the confessionalist poet allows the listener to feel and be part of the tragedy of life. With somber guitar pieces and an angelic voice so rare and delicate, you listen for the moment when everything will break. The warble haze of raw emotion and inner struggle balances the softness and floods of loudness of this mysterious album. Released by I had An Accident Records on cassette tape and coming soon to Hot Releases on 12″ vinyl. Theatre Intangible (Nashville) calls her “an incredibly rare talent.” Limited to 200 copies on ivory cassettes.

Funeral Club – ‘Red Mountain’ C32 $6
Funeral Club is the California based husband and wife duo Joseph and Jenny Andreotti. Red Mountain brings the experimental side of the band together in a surrealistic dreamscape of organic instrumentation coupled by Jenny’s sweet sounding vocals. The folk traditions mixed in 60’s futuristic psychedelic groove drip in sincerity and nostalgia. A beautiful album to listen to deep in the night or in the early morning as the wind gently rustles the curtains pressed against the open window. Limited to 50 copies.

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HEL004 – Θ “æ ω”
60 minutes of bleak & cataclysmic FM synthesis.

HEL005 – Orem Owls – ‘Index’
Low fidelity science fiction tape loop jams.

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Eitarnora CD $10
Described by Evening of Light as being “like a very personal journey through rugged but calm North American landscapes,” Eitarnora return with their signature style of Americana on Tall Grasses and Black Ash; classical guitar stylization woven with sung poetry and masterfully crafted ambience. Guest appearances include Troy Schafer and Nathaniel Ritter of Kinit Her and Antonio Gallucci and Francesca Marongiu of Architeuthis Rex. Due out this April on Lakedeer Recordings, Tall Grasses and Black Ash is the duo’s third full length following Maiden of Golden Hair in 2010 and Murmurations released on Brave Mysteries last year. Tall Grasses and Black Ash continues Eitarnora’s underlying themes of love and prairies with intimate poetry by Val Dorr in addition to lyrics from the Rosa Alchemica by W. B. Yeats. Format: CD in jewel case with 4 panel booklet. Edition of 100, 20 Special Edition. Cover Artwork: Alyssa L. Paulsen.

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ESTAMPIDO/NUCLEAR ASSAO – ‘Never Mind The Noise Here’s Estampido & Nuclear Assao Split EP’ 7″ 5€
In the early 90s the Spanish underground was taken by zillions of infamous noisecore bands. Maybe you remember names such as Genital Masticator, Carne, Likidillo Of Kontainer, Septic Goitrous, Pestufator, Agacoples, Petabravas… This 7″ EP includes two current bands, formed by veteran members, who have resurrected all that uncomfortable musical destruction. Estampido came from the south of Tenerife (Spain) and have a secret line-up. After several demo tapes, that offered sordid mega-hits as “No era coca, era cal” (It was not coke, it was lime), they present in this 7″ EP 14 new irritating songs where noisecore, punk and hardcore are mixed in extremely annoying and brief tracks. Nuclear Assao came from from Barcelona (Spain). The band members are grind/noise veterans who have played in Violent Headache, Mixomatosis, Almax, Net Weight, Holocaust In Your Head, Pozilga, ÖBNI, Disface, Uprising, Totalickers and even worst bands. Worshipers of mongoloid humor, they present 26 tracks of a chaotic blend of grind, noisecore and hardcore with extremely absurd song titles. “Never Mind The Noise Here’s Estampido & Nuclear Assao Split EP”, is seven inches EP with 40 tracks of noisecore, in a fraternal coproduction between the labels Hombre que mira al cielo, Infecció Underground, Crit Of Fàstic and Truco Esparrago. It includes a black and white insert and an A3 bulletin with english/spanish interviews to the bands. Only for 5 euros plus postage through the label Truco Espárrago.

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MOHAMMAD – ‘Som Sakrifis’ LP
MOHAMMAD is a chamber music trio consisting of Coti K (contrabass), ILIOS (oscillators) and Nikos Veliotis (cello). Based in Greece, Mohammad make long form work drone works that explore the lower end of the frequency spectrum whilst retaining an intense emotional capacity. The results are monumental slow moving physical blocks of sound, both daunting and musical. The sheer weight of these recordings is impressive, the interplay of the musicians and instruments staggering, this end result being an album rich with immense harmonious abstraction which highlights years of dedication to their unique path. Following on from their previous releases (the highly regarded ‘Roto Vildblomma’ CD and the ‘Spiriti’ 3LP box, both on Antifrost) ‘Som Sakrifis’ follows the trio through three tracks of deep space experimentation where the acoustic and electronic blend together as a monumental whole. Listening to ‘Som Sakrifis’ takes the listener on an expansive journey through the netherworld of the low range whilst retaining distinct traces of musicality. The time and space in these works have a logic more akin to that of Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr than any contemporary music references. Monumental monochromatic movement is the order of the day. Sit back, strap in and let these fine explorers take you way out into the nether world. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, pressed on 140g vinyl. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened pvc sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas.

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VILLAGES – ‘SUN CONTROL’ C32
Tread a hopeful stress wind errant. Glide boughs of near composure. Walled against continual fade. Wistful turning. Limited edition of 100.

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005: GRIPGEVEST & KLING C38
Limited Edition of 77 grey audio tapes with black print. In clear cassette case with fullcolour artwork and folded b&w insert with artefact. Synthesizers and Electric Guitar by David Edren. Flutes, Acoustic Guitar, Zither and Voice Effects by Bent von Bent. All tracks are Live Improvisations. Recorded at Scheld’apen (12/2011) and St.Welvaert (09/2012) Antwerpen.

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The Hand Hotel Welcome Kit $10
book your first night and get the good news from the Hand Hotel courtesy of LOGE MEDIA & HUMAN CONDUCT. Sign says no vacancy, but there’s always room for one more fresh squeeze. The gang’s all here: Lila Maria, the White Ghost, Shadow Brother, Hard Law, Rich Bank, the Major, Trotter Huff, Stardaddy Dixie, Fuzz, and all the rest.

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